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Introduction to child art

Typescript draft pasted into Embassy Drawing Book Infant Department. Handwritten title on cover 'Introduction to child art by V. Lahey'. At the foot of the cover: Approved by Education Department'. First page has the title 'Art for children'.

My life in the Army

As short account of life in the Australian army in WWI in response to a London 'Evening News' newspaper competition offering 100 Guineas for the 'best article'.

My first impressions of Blighty

A short account of an Australian's first experience of England, which 'was not exactly what you could call pleasant'. Two identical versions, 7 and 8 leaves respectively. One copy signed 'Sig', the other Harold S Shapcott.

War Babies by 'Shap'

Carbon copy typescript of a fictionalised account based on personal experience by Harold Sutton Shapcott, father of Queensland writer Thomas Shapcott, who published it in 1978. It was entered into the RSSILA centenary war novel competition and includes accounts of action at Warneton, Zonnebeke, Hamel, on the Somme in August 1918 and during attack on the Hindenburg Line. Also includes periods of hospitalisation in France and leave in England. Another copy of this typescript of 1934 is held at the Australian War Memorial.

Ecce homo. A survey of the life and work of Jesus Christ. [by J R Seeley]. 1866. Inscribed

Inscription on half-title ‘With the Publishers comp’ts’
Ownership inscription on title: Charles & Fanny Kingsley. Eversley Rectory, 1866
Charles Kingsley armorial bookplate on inside upper boards.
Inscribed ‘To my dear Friend Robert M Collins of Tamrookum. In Memory of Charles & Fanny Kingsley’. This inscription presumably by Grenville Kingsley.

Charles Kingsley. His letters and memories of his life. Edited by his wife. Abridged edition. Vol. 2 (of 2). 1878. Illustrated with original photographs

Several inscriptions:
a) Maurice for Mother
b) Fanny Kingsley 1878. Proofs ? ? correction.
c) Given to my dearest Grenville for his own private reading – 1890-1. F.E.K.

Extra-illustrated with 10 photographs, 2 certificates, 1 dried seaweed specimen.
With manuscript amendments throughout the text, almost certainly in Fanny Kingsley's hand.

  1. Portrait of Grenville ‘ My darling Grenville, 1878
  2. ‘FEK 1856’
  3. Charles Kingsley’s grave
  4. Charles Kingsley 1872
  5. Mary under the Fir Tree (p. 86)
  6. My darlings Mary and Grenville 1861-2 (p. 139)
  7. Maurice 1862
  8. Lithographed class certificate for Grenville 1868 (p. 207)
  9. Oval coloured portrait of Grenville Piece (?) (p. 300)
  10. Piece of mounted seaweed, captioned ‘Found for me by my darling Grenville on the shores Colwyn Bay. June 1872 (p. 300)
  11. Rose and Mary and Lady Bunbury in the Conservatory, ?? Hall, 1866 (p. 359)
  12. Newspaper cuttings, Canada 1874
  13. Grenville playing the violin 1869-70. Captioned ‘Take up your music again my dearest boy. Mother 1890’
  14. School report card for Grenville 1871
  15. Newspaper cuttings, Birmingham 1872

Charles Kingsley. His letters and memories of his life. Edited by his wife. 2 volumes. 1877. Illustrated with original photographs

Inscibed by Frances ‘Fanny’ Eliza Kingsley (nee Grenfell, 1814 – 1891), the editor, to her (and the author's) youngest son. "Grenville Arthur Kingsley. In Memory of the best of Father’s, from his loving Mother. Byfleet, December 1876." Further inscribed to Fanny Collins from Rose Kingsley in remembrance of her darling brother Grenville Arthur Kingsley". This was probably Fannie Martin Collins (9 Jun 1887 – 24 Feb 1944), a daughter of Robert Collins, Grenville Kingsley’s friend. Fannie later married De Burgh Bannatyne Bentinck Persse (1881 –1947). Fannie was 10 years old at the time of Grenville Kingsley’s death.
Kingsley family armorial bookplates on inside upper boards.
Extra-illustrated with 22 photographs, 10 printed illustrations, 2 dried flowers and 1 drawing.

Volume 1:

  1. House with a young man reading on front lawn (verso of half title)
  2. Portrait of Charles Kingsley (verso of title page)
  3. Oval portrait with initials F.E.K., i.e. Frances ‘Fanny’ Eliza Kingsley (dedication page)
  4. River (p. 1)
  5. Printed illustration of St Luke’s Chelsea (p. 15)
  6. Big house (p. 41)
  7. Dining room (p. 63)
  8. Dried flower (p. 64)
  9. ‘Bramshill House’ (full-page, verso of plate between pp. 74 / 75)
  10. Printed Illustration (p.115
  11. Printed Illustration (p. 116)
  12. House (p. 193)
  13. Portrait of Charles Kingsley (p. 232)
  14. Photograph of an portrait of Fanny Kingsley painted in 1850 (p. 232)
  15. ‘Cottages built in Eversley by John Martineau 1887 In Memory of his beloved “Master”’ (on single sheet of paper between pp. 308/309)
  16. Church interior (p.358 – loose)
  17. Church (verso of plate between pp. 358 / 359)
  18. Full-length portrait of Charles Kingsley (p. 401)
  19. Printed Illustration of ‘Ogwen Lake’ (p. 461)
  20. Original drawing of two fish going for bait with three lines of text (p. 462)

Volume 2:

  1. Printed Illustration (p. 45)
  2. Printed Illustration (p. 123)
  3. Newspaper cutting (p. 153)
  4. Printed steel-engraved portrait (verso of plate between pp. 284 / 285)
  5. Printed Illustration (p. 290)
  6. Dried flower (p. 294)
  7. Churchyard with people looking at head-stones (p. 343)
  8. Stone wall and tower (p. 343)
  9. ‘The Porch. Eversley Church and path from Rectory’ (p. 376)
  10. Chester Cathedral (p. 377)
  11. Chester Cathedral – side view (p. 377)
  12. Printed steel-engraved portrait (verso of plate between p. 402)
  13. Portrait of young lady (p. 403)
  14. Printed Illustration (p. 479)
  15. Charles Kingsley’s grave (p. 480)

Kingsley, Frances Eliza Grenfell, 1814-1891

Art Archive : Leonard Brown, 2007-2011

Correspondence, exhibition invitations and catalogues, price lists, photographs, newspapwer cuttings. Includes correspondence from Mornington Peninusla Regional Gallery, Peter Fay, Chris Capper, Jill Godfrey, John McPhee, QAG, QUT, Blake Society (Blake Prize). No handwritten label on bottom right hand corner.

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